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Introducing students to the scientific study of peace and war, this exciting new reader provides an overview of important and current scholarship in this dynami

An evidence-based analysis of governance focusing on the institutional capacities and qualities that reduce the risk of armed conflict.

Douglas M. Gibler argues that threats to homeland territories force domestic political centralization within the state. Using an innovative theory of state deve

Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scien